Ultraviolet Art Talks Season12 EP07 Sorcha McNamara

On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Sorcha McNamara in 2022.

Sorcha McNamara lives and works in Mayo, Ireland, and sometimes elsewhere. She works in abstraction. 

Her approach to making things is simultaneously meditative and improvised; at once thoughtful and thoughtless. Her eye attends to the overlooked, unnoticed or disregarded aspects of the everyday, focusing her attention towards material, objects and fragments that are often discarded, salvaged, reclaimed holding traces of a previous existence, or entirely ambiguous in their origin.

Selected recent group exhibitions include VISUAL Carlow Centre for Contemporary Art (2024); Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2024); Draíocht Gallery, Dublin (2023); and The LAB, Dublin (2023). Solo projects include Echo/Locate, Linenhall Arts Centre (2025); Fathomless Arms, Ballina Arts Centre (2023); (dis)attachments, The Hyde Bridge Gallery (2022); and Oonagh Young Gallery (2022).

Recent residencies include Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2024); Zaratan Arte Contemporanea (2024); Totaldobze Art Centre (2022); and Tangent Projects (2021). Sorcha’s work has been supported through the Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2023, 2022, 2021) and a Mayo Artist Bursary Award (2023, 2022).

She holds an MA in Art + Research Collaboration from IADT Dún Laoghaire (2024) and a BA in Painting from Limerick School of Art & Design (2019). 

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